The Soul of Victorian New York: The Life and Art of Jacob Hart Lazarus In the bustling, intellectually vibrant atmosphere of nineteenth-century Greenwich Village, a period defined by rapid urban expansion and cultural awakening, Jacob Hart Lazarus (1822–1891) began a journey that would eventually immortalize the faces of New York’s elite. Born into one of eight children, Lazarus was raised amidst the creative ferment of a city on the…